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is interesting though how like when it when
that shahar kid was discovered as the Boston bomber
and everyone was using my car used to be so chill just laid-back smoke marijuana
made a really chill but then with the train by Marin he was a a monster who
smoke marijuana
made in rage like the complete opposite spectrum that they're trying to cash
that's true what you know maybe we should talk about
I actually briefly touch on this on the Rolling Stone cover:
controversy where there's a picture uva
so hearts r-nev
the I the one of the Boston bombers
and apparently
there's been huge I
outrage about this I in certain areas
the some resellers a rolling stone CVS
I am who else is it Walgreen several other chains have decided they're not
going to sell
this issue %uh Rolling Stone magazine because I love the picture above zohar
which makes him look like a rockstar now
understand it's a picture that New York Times ran at him
I in the early days when he was identified there's no doubt
that this picture was chosen because in some way it does capture a quality
that we've seen in pictures of other rock stars but if you read the piece
and there's no doubt also that the really some people said this could be
controversial
but so what
if you read the piece EA
it definitely captures the sense of here's a guy
who appeared to be all those qualities
a chill guy who sort have a charming in magnetic and had some charisma
was one of the two captains on the Rolly on the on the wrestling team
I'll he was quiet and shy and removed
in assorted like this Rebel Without a Cause typeof quality
the you know sort of like a the a
you know the the under on the misunderstood
though a guy in no one imagined that this was brewing in him
you can see how that cover make sense and I will also say that the piece
itself
I think is a brilliant piece of reporting I think it's a really
important piece of reporting because we're just all terrorist
and this this in vocation up the word terrorist
justifies all sorts of curbing of our civil rights
all sorts of draconian our responses
when in fact I think what this story shows is that they're
is nuance not do not to say that anything is justified
but the catch-all phrase terrorist makes it too easy
for the national security state
to take actions
that and create a sense of fear
that is not in line with actually who these people are
that that is not to say that this guy was in a a terrorist
but it is to say that this guy
was obviously his brother was a psychopath
and this guy was obviously
untethered in many respects he had been abandoned by his family
he had was
under this or the influence I love I
this psychopathic brother and
latched onto I just this idea because in some ways it gave him an identity
and it could have really been
anything it's just that this I'll
fundamentalist a
islam is floating around out there that this cause
that he felt that arm n
because love
this notion I think he expresses in the story to someone at one point like if
you do
you Muslim a people are one
person and if you do harm to one you doing harm to all
that this guy while I think in some respects
the notion of like they're attacking my people
the government is attacking my people
though the response that he took
was wrong and
a function more up with his psychological state
then it was I love that idea
i think thats what comes across minutes a very nuanced
sort of I love dynamic that
have there been some other driving force he could have ended up
going into a ESO going into a theater in shooting people
for because you know for some other reason
made the point being that it's not so simple that these people are driven by
an ideology
do not just driven by an ideology some may very well be
some a bin Laden I think it's is is an example that
but some of these other people who were all told you know there's legions
above a suicide bombers driven by an ideology
no there are legions of people out there
who are psychologically damaged and who
then find something to cling to
that provides them some justification for their action
and that something could be anything at any given time